Margaret Atwood Quotes

Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.

I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.

There's just something hypnotic about maps.

I get lost a lot.

I have an incredible compass. You can put me back in a country I haven't been in 20 years and say, 'Get me from point A to point B,' and I'll take you there.

We were just looking at maps.

To find where you are going, you must know where you are.

The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again.

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.

I like geography. I like to know where places are.

I'd like to have a perfect sense of direction. I could get lost with a GPS strapped to my arm.

I have a terrible sense of direction.

If you took a child in London and took their iPhone and took them somewhere else in the country, they'd probably not be able to find their way back. That's a shame.

I have an incredible sense of direction, but London is confusing. It's a circle, but then it stops being a circle.

If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks - that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.

The lake was always my orienting point when my dad was teaching me how to not get lost. The lake is east, so you'll always know that. It's a weird thing where you can kind of feel where you're at in Chicago, and when I was downtown, I was like, 'Oh, it feels more open over here. That must be east.' It felt like a little secret thing.

Without geography you're nowhere.

Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!

If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.

The map isn't always the territory, and you have to kind of walk through it to get a feel for it.